Title: Gathering of the Sheep

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Scripture predicts that one day the sheep (meaning good people) will be gathered. How will that happen?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Deuteronomy 30:1
Psalms 107; 147
Isaiah 11:11; 27:12; 40:11; 54:7; 66:18
Jeremiah 3:17-18; 23:1; 29:10-12; 31:8-end
Isaiah 32:37-39
Ezekiel 11:17; 20:34, 41; 34; 36:24; 39:27
Micah 2:12-13
Zechariah 10:8
Matthew 12:30; 13:30, 40, 43, 47-48; 18:20; 24:30-31
Luke 13:34
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

In general, trees represent the deepest and most significant intellectual concepts: the ones that come to us most directly from the Lord. This varies depending on us and our states: the people of the Most Ancient Church, who were in a state of loving the Lord, understood truth automatically and internally through what the Writings call "perception"; people in lower states (including most of us) have to work a little harder to learn it from the Word and by willing to follow the Lord. In other parts of the Bible, especially in the prophets and New Testament parables, the meaning of "tree" is broader, meaning not just a person's intellectual concepts but the whole person.

'Trees,' as in Joel 1:10-12, signify knowledges.